No room for ideals

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Our society admires people who get ahead, and that includes those who squeeze the land or the people or the animals, or any ‘resource’. How they squeeze isn’t usually seen. But the results seem satisfactory and are generally appreciated by the consumer. (The consumer society is so well 'resourced' in every imaginable way).

         

The producers of goods, we may call them the ‘admired ones’, are often loving people and kind to their families and friends, but they can also be ruthless when it comes to protecting their source-of-income. In the animals industry, anyone using animals to make a living are simply ‘advantage-takers’. The animals themselves are no longer regarded as living-feeling entities but some thing on a production line. The producers, who have to kill them and pack their body parts for retail, these people have to numb their feelings, and just ‘do it’.  This is how they make a living - from these enslaved animals. There's no room for sentimentality here. It’s a matter of making a 'living-wage’ out of them. No room for ideals.

If they are animal farmers, their livelihood involves successful imprisoning, cruelty, deprivation and betrayal of animals. It contradicts everything the idealist stands for.

As an idealist with no longer any need for products of the animals industry, I can be aloof to it all. I don’t get mixed up with anything or anyone involved in the cruelty trade. And that includes all animal farming (since all animal farming is cruel and abusive).

         

The pastoralist or the factory farmer can earn big money. Their businesses boost the country’s economy. These people, who are helping to ‘feed the masses’, are comforted by Society’s approval of what they do. In contrast the idealist is left out in the cold – given no encouragement and get no interest shown from anyone.

         

As yet, there are so few ‘idealist-animal-advocates’ that we're an easy target. It’s open slather on the insulting-front. Anyone can say anything and get away with it. So, when it comes right down to it, at the end of the day, I will always be a ‘bleeding heart’ to them. That means I take a too soft approach to these farm animals, whilst ignoring Society's very real need for abattoir products. The animals MUST NOT MATTER.